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Allen, William Francis. Slave Songs of the United States. 1867. Reprint, New York: Arno, 1971.

Baker, Houston A., Jr. Long Black Song: Essays in Black American Literature and Culture. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1972.

———. Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature: A Vernacular Theory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984.

Bell, Bernard. The Folk Roots of Contemporary Afro-American Poetry. Detroit: Broadside Press, 1974.

Botkin, B. A. New York City Folklore. New York: Random House, 1956.

Brewer, James Mason. American Negro Folklore. Chicago: Quandrangle Books, 1968.

Callahan, John F. In the African-American Grain: Call and Response in Twentieth-Century Black Fiction. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1988.

Chireau, Yvonne. “Conjure and Christianity in the Nineteenth Century: Religious Elements in African American Magic.” Religion and American Culture 7, no. 2 (summer 1997): 225-47.

Cone, James H. The Spirituals and the Blues. New York: The Seabury Press, 1972.

Courlander, Harold. Negro Folk Music, U.S.A. New York: Columbia University Press, 1963.

———. A Treasury of Afro-American Folklore. New York: Marlowe and Company, 1976.

Dance, Daryl C. Shuckin' and Jivin': Folklore from Contemporary Black Americans. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1978.

Dixon, Melvin. “We'll Stand the Storm: Slave Songs and Narratives.” In Ride Out the Wilderness: Geography and Identity in Afro-American Literature. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1987.

Dundes, Alan. Mother Wit from the Laughing Barrel: Readings in the Interpretation of Afro-American Folklore. New York: Garland Publishing, 1981.

Ellison, Ralph. Shadow and Act. New York: Random House, 1964. Reprint, New York: Vintage, 1995.

Fry, Gladys-Marie. Night Riders in Black Folk History. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1975.

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Gray, Lee Valerie. “The Use of Folktales in Novels by Black Women.” CLA Journal 23 (1980): 266-72.

Hill, Mildred A. “Common Folklore Features in African and African-American Literature.” Southern Folklore Quarterly 39 (1975): 111-33.

Hughes, Langston, and Arna Bontemps. Book of Negro Folklore. New York: Dodd, 1957.

Hurston, Zora Neale. Mules and Men. New York: J. B. Lippincott, Inc., 1935. Reprint, New York: Harper & Row, 1990.

———. Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica. New York: J. B. Lippincott, Inc., 1938. Reprint, New York: Harper & Row, 1990.

Hyman, Stanley Edgar, and Ralph Ellison. “The Negro Writer in America: An Exchange.” Partisan Review 25, no. 2 (spring 1958): 197-222.

Jones, Gayl. Liberating Voices: Oral Tradition in African American Literature. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991.

Levine, Lawrence. Black Culture and Black Consciousness. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977.

Locke, Alain, ed. The New Negro: Voices of the Harlem Renaissance. New York: Albert & Charles Boni, Inc., 1925. Reprint, New York: Atheneum, 1992.

Oakley, Giles. The Devil's Music: A History of the Blues. New York: Taplinger, 1977.

Odum, Howard, and Guy B. Johnson. The Negro and His Songs: A Study of Typical Negro Songs of the South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1925.

Ogunleye, Tolagbe. “African American Folklore: Its Role in Reconstructing African American History.” Journal of Black Studies 27, no. 4 (March 1997): 435-56.

Oliver, Paul. Blues off the Record: Thirty Years of Blues Commentary. New York: Da Capo, 1984.

Petesch, Donald A. “The Role of Folklore in the Modern Black Novel.” Kansas Quarterly 7 (1975): 99-110.

Prahlad, Sw. Anand. African-American Proverbs in Context. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1996.

———. “Guess Who's Coming to Dinner: Folklore, Folkloristics, and African American Literary Criticism.” African American Review 33, no. 4 (winter 1999): 565-75.

Puckett, Newbell Niles. Folk Beliefs of the Southern Negro. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1926. Reprint, New York: Dover Publications, 1969.

Pyatt, Sherman E., and Alan Johns. A Dictionary and Catalog of African American Folklife of the South. New York: Greenwood Press, 1999.

Roberts, John W. From Trickster to Badman: The Black Folk Hero in Slavery and Freedom. Philadelphia: University of Philadelphia Press, 1989.

Schultz, Elizabeth A. “To Be Black and Blue: The Blues Genre in Black American Autobiography.” Kansas Quarterly 7 (1975): 81-96.

Turner, Darwin T. “Black Fiction: History and Myth.” Studies in American Fiction 5 (1977): 109-26.

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The Study Of African-American Literature And Folklore

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